Chinese Character 肾 Meanings and components.

Form

肾

Meaning

肾 meaning[3] in English

Kidney.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 肾 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are variant of 收[shou1] (収) , and moon (月)

Its radical[1] is: 肉 (rou4) which means: Meat, Flesh, Pulp (Of A Fruit), (Coll.) (Of A Fruit) Squashy, (Of A Person) Flabby, Irresolute, Kangxi Radical 130, .肉rou4meat

In cangjie it is written with LEB

How to write 肾

To write肾shen4kidney you should write a combination of 収shou1variant of … , 月yue4moon arranged in a 吕 shape:

収 + 月 = 肾

肾 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 肾 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 肾, looks as follow:

肾
Pinyin:shen4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Kidney
収
Pinyin:shou1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 收[Shou1]
丩
Pinyin:jiu1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 糾|纠[Jiu1]
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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